Peripheral and phantom limb pain- pain or discomfort felt in the area of the missing limb

Treatments include:

Various injections for both diagnosis and treatment of back pain, spinal pain, nerve conditions, and cancer pain:

Epidural steroid injections

Facet joint injections

Diagnostic discographies

Sacroiliac joint injections

Percutaneous disc decompression

Diagnostic and therapeutic medial branch blocks

Lumbar sympathetic plexus blocks

Stellate Ganglion blocks

Celiac Plexus blocks

Patient controlled analgesia—a method of allowing a person in pain to administer their own pain relief

Continuous and patient controlled epidural analgesia

Radio frequency ablation- the use of electrodes to heat and destroy abnormal tissue

Trigger point injection- a procedure used to treat painful areas of muscle that contain knots of muscle that form when muscles do not relax

Pharmacology and non-pharmacology based medical management

Spinal cord stimulation- electrical stimulation of nervous tissues on a specific portion of the spinal cord to produce a pain-reducing tingling sensation

Intrathecal pumps- an implantable device that directly delivers pain medication into the fluid around the nerves of the spine – allowing for much more direct and often more potent pain relief than possible with tablets or even IV pain medication.

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